Re: Safety

[Bill Meezan <meezan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:14 PM 1/20/98 -0800, you wrote:
>We are beginning a study involving in-person interviews with 6-12 year olds
>in California's foster care system. One domain of interest is children's
>"experience of safety," in their homes and their neighborhoods.  We are
>looking for objective measures that may account for the likelihood of
>injury, as well as more subjective measures (ones which assess children's
>perceptions, reasoning, or feelings). Any leads you can provide would be
>greatly appreciated.
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>Adair Fox, M.S.W.
>phone: 510-643-2586
>email:  adair@uclink4.berkeley.edu
>Child Welfare Research Center
>School of Social Welfare
>University of California at Berkeley
>
For a short observational and objective measure, you might want to look at
the "Living Conditions" index of the Family Assessment Form recently
published by the Child Welfare League of America.

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William Meezan, DSW
John Milner Professor of Social Work
University of Southern California 
School of Social Work
(213) 740-5883 (phone)
(213) 740-0789 (fax)